[BUG] error in global variables strong aliasing

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 18 April 2006 19:27, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 06:25:38PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > any problems until after this change ... and really, the alias has
> > > > always been weak here, not strong, so you werent revereting anything
> > > > when you changed weak_alias(environ) to strong_alias(environ) ...
> > > >
> > > > if we look at glibc, they never use strong_alias() for data, just
> > > > functions
> > >
> > > I can't find any logic when glibc uses strong_alias versus weak_alias,
> > > it seems to me, that anything new added is weak_alias
> >
> > i was going by a grep of the source code itself ... all aliases used for
> > data are weak_alias()
>
> It would be better to read the fine manuals and learn the semantic
> difference between weak and strong and why they're used the way
> they're used.

and what manuals would those be exactly ?  we've already shown that 
strong_alias() fails to work properly for some architectures regardless of 
native or cross-compilation
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2006-04/msg00048.html

but if you're implying that we dont understand the difference between a weak 
and a strong symbol, you're mistaken
-mike